After an epic weekend in Washington, the House of Representatives passed the long-awaited and much-debated health care bill, instantly inviting cheers of celebration and predictions for its future implications.
Every so often, certain situations seem to throw me back to the days of my youth. I had decisions to make, and I didn't want to make them.
I rode on a sudden impulse last week and signed myself up to go ice skating with the Ice Skating Club last Thursday night.
Times like these make me want to build my own hot air balloon, ascend to the ends of the atmosphere and broadcast the following message to the world (or at least to my university):"Everybody, just slow down!"I confess my first reaction to seeing the footage of a weather balloon drifting away into the damning Colorado skies was devastation.
Correction appendedWhen a friend of Reuben Wechsler '80 and Ellen Levine-Wechsler '80 arranged a meeting on Chapels Field to exchange chemistry notes toward the end of their junior year, the couple did not foresee the imminent rollercoaster ride their relationship would take that would to last for years to come. "I saw a guy walking towards me that day at our proposed meeting time, and I looked into his dreamy brown eyes, introduced myself and asked him about borrowing the notes," Levine-Wechsler said in an e-mail to the Justice.
On the evening of June 3, 2009, American teenagers swarmed the bars of downtown Jerusalem. Amid the remains of beer bottles and hookah, the kids were not in the best condition for their impromptu interviews about recently-elected President Barack Obama with American filmmaker and journalist Max Blumenthal.
MAELSTROMI can't shake this vision of a prospective student poring over admissions pamphlets, coming across the possibility to create his or her own Independent General Education Requirements.
MAELSTROMLast week, I came across some information that deserves to be included in the conversation about Brandeis in the media: The recent hiring of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, Inc. isn't the first time the University has looked to outside sources for help reclaiming its image.Brandeis chose to use a professional public relations firm, Dukas Public Relations in a delicate situation that was far less urgent.
MAELSTROM I don't often think in terms of mathematics, but Brandeis is currently experiencing a financial crisis whose ramifications have put together an equation that has been troubling my thoughts:Bad public relations plus efforts to attract prospective students equals . what?
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